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- Category: quotations (continued)
- A Poem by Charles Bukowski (7)
- A Poem by Czeslaw Milosz (14)
- A Poem by Dennis O'Driscoll (10)
- A Poem by Jane Kenyon
- A Poem by John Clare
- A Poem by John Crowe Ransom
- A Poem by Michael Donaghy (1)
- A Poem by Norman MacCaig (10)
- A Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (3)
- A Poem by Robert Frost (3)
- A Poem by Stephen Dunn (2)
- A Poem by Thomas Moore (1)
- A Poem By Tom Leonard (3)
- A poem by Wislawa Szymborska (9)
- A Poem from Jack Gilbert (6)
- A Voice From The Book Trade (3)
- A Writer's Notebook I (3)
- A Writer's Notebook II (4)
- A Writer's Notebook VI (4)
- A Writers' Workshop (2)
- A Writing Quote (7)
- Abandoning Anne Bronte (3)
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- After Rain by William Trevor (1)
- Agassi's 'obscene' advance (15)
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- Allen Lane - the founder of Penguin Books
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- America in denial over gun control (37)
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- Amulet by Roberto Bolaño (1)
- An Evening with Murdersquad (1)
- An old children's rhyme (13)
- An Old French Poet
- Ancient Lights - Selected Poems by Dick Jones (2)
- Anne Enright on China and Censorship
- Another Poem by Czeslaw Milosz (2)
- Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
- Are You She? Review (3)
- Around the world in 100 books (2)
- At The Shed (2)
- Back to the real business
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- Baghdad's Book Market
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- Being A Writer (4)
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- Bringing Love to the World - American-Style
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- Burma, Writers and Censorship
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- Busted flat in Baton Rouge (4)
- By Night in Chile - review (1)
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- Carol Ann Duffy (4)
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- Change of Policy at Grumpy Old Bookman (7)
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- Cheaper than war
- Chimamanda Adichie: The danger of a single story
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- China's High-Tech Police State (1)
- Chosen by Lesley Glaister
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- Clock without Hands by Carson McCullers (4)
- Cock and Bull by Will Self (3)
- Coffee in Tehran
- Conservapedia (7)
- Cormac McCarthy - an interview (2)
- Creating a Text - Amanda Mann
- Creating a Text - Andrew Taylor (3)
- Creating a Text - Ann Cleeves
- Creating a Text - Ann Marie
- Creating a Text - Anne Frasier
- Creating a Text - Bill Liversidge
- Creating a Text - Brian McGilloway
- Creating a Text - Carla Nayland (1)
- Creating a Text - Clare Dudman (1)
- Creating a Text - Cynthia Harrison
- Creating a Text - Debi Alper
- Creating a Text - Declan Burke
- Creating a Text - Dee Sunshine (1)
- Creating a Text - Derec Jones
- Creating a Text - Dick Jones (1)
- Creating a Text - Elizabeth Baines (2)
- Creating a Text - Erin
- Creating a Text - Ernesto Priego (3)
- Creating a Text - Iain Rowan
- Creating a Text - Jason Evans (3)
- Creating a Text - Jenny Davidson (7)
- Creating a Text - John Fullerton
- Creating a Text - John Harvey
- Creating a Text - John P Matthew
- Creating a Text - Julia Buckley (1)
- Creating a Text - Kate Harrison
- Creating a Text - Kathleen Maher
- Creating a Text - L. Lee Lowe
- Creating a Text - Lynn Viehl
- Creating a Text - M.E. Ellis (1)
- Creating a Text - Michael Allen (2)
- Creating a Text - Milly Johnson
- Creating a Text - Nicola Monaghan (2)
- Creating a Text - Paul Sutherland
- Creating a Text - Paula Grenside
- Creating a Text - Pearl Pirie
- Creating a Text - Peggy Payne
- Creating a Text - Penelope Farmer (1)
- Creating a Text - Rebecca Jane
- Creating a Text - Robert Peake (3)
- Creating a Text - Robert Wilson (2)
- Creating a Text - Sandra Scoppettone (1)
- Creating a Text - Sarah Salway (1)
- Creating a Text - Susan Helene Gottfried
- Creating a Text - Tobias Buckell (1)
- Creating a Text - Winston Churchill (2)
- Creating a Text - Yang-May Ooi (1)
- Creating a Text - Yvonne Eve Walus
- Crow Lake by Mary Lawson - a review (1)
- Cultural Anxiety (8)
- Cycle Paths - cooled and shaded (1)
- Czeslaw Milosz and Solidarity (2)
- Dad is Baghdad
- Dancing for the Hangman by Martin Edwards (1)
- Dancing Round Europe
- Darkness - a poem by Lord Byron (1)
- Dear Senator Edwards: (1)
- Death's Side of the Bed (3)
- Desmond Tutu Banned from Minnesota University (3)
- Diagnosing Lear
- Dickens' Will (6)
- Did I Shave My Legs for This? (5)
- Disturbing the Peace by Richard Yates
- Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson (4)
- Do Not Write Love Poems (10)
- Do Publishers Know Anything About Literature? (2)
- Do You Write Under Your Own Name?
- Don't know how I ever managed to get her . . . (1)
- Double Take (1)
- Dreaming for Writers (4)
- Dress to Kill
- Durham Literature Festival (1)
- Edith Wharton & Biography (1)
- Eight rules for writing fiction (14)
- Einstein's Bees (24)
- Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman - a review (3)
- Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates (5)
- Elif Shafak on Fiction and Imagination (2)
- Eloquence (1)
- End In Sight In Corruption Murder (2)
- Envy
- Epitaph - Blogging from the Grave (2)
- Eudora Welty - a sense of exposure (1)
- Evil? I Don't Think So. (2)
- Exbrayat Blog
- Extract - Irony and Carol Shields (3)
- Fair Play - a review (1)
- Falling off a cliff (2)
- Family Voices (6)
- Federico Garcia Lorca - a poem (3)
- Fiction and Research (3)
- Fictional Character (1)
- First Love (1)
- Five Questions: Bhupinder Singh (4)
- Five Questions: Donavan Hall
- Five Questions: Gerald So (10)
- Five Questions: John Baker (8)
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- Five Years Ago
- Flanders & Swann (1)
- Flaubert's Sweat (5)
- Flight of the Conchords
- Football is faster than words
- Forty Acres
- Four Fathers - a review (1)
- Fred D'Aguiar - Feeding the Ghosts
- Frieda Hughes Interview (8)
- Friends, Romans, countrymen, give me your attention (2)
- Futility
- Gabriel and Fidel (4)
- Gary Snyder
- George Orwell - Bookshop Memories (2)
- Getting Him Ready To Go (3)
- Getting to the Bottom of Beckett (3)
- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (1)
- Girl Blog from Iraq (1)
- God Save The Queen - Only He Can (7)
- god stuff (2)
- Google - the evil empire? (4)
- Gore Vidal and the bomb (2)
- Growing up with Language
- Grumpy Old Bookman reviews Poet in the Gutter (1)
- Guantanamo (5)
- Hang 'em High (3)
- Hans Christian Andersen/William Burroughs (1)
- Have We Abandoned the Enlightenment? (4)
- Have you seen the most beautiful woman in the world? (3)
- Havoc, In Its Third Year by Ronan Bennett - a review
- He's gone (4)
- Hemingway’s Hamburger
- Her Silence is Mine. Her Eyes Mine. (5)
- Her Voice Is Full Of Money
- Here it comes again. . .
- Himmler - Speaking To His Own
- Hints on Pronunciation for Foreigners (10)
- Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson - a review (3)
- How not to think for ourselves (5)
- How To Get Published (2)
- Huckleberry Finn & Conscience (2)
- Humility or the Nobel Prize? You choose. (3)
- Humour and such (4)
- I'm Not There - film review (2)
- Identity (4)
- Impac Literary Award
- Improvident writers (7)
- In the Company of the Courtesan - Sarah Dunant (4)
- In The Wake by Per Petterson - a review
- Insensitivity (12)
- Institutionalized Creativity (19)
- Interview with Charles Foran
- Interview with F Scott Fitzgerald (6)
- Is Literature Supposed to be Convenient? (4)
- Is Poetry Less Literary Than a Novel? (3)
- Isabel Allende (2)
- It's Just the Beating of My Heart (3)
- It's Perfectly Normal (6)
- Jalaladdin Rumi (2)
- Jane Austen by Carol Shields (5)
- Jane Kenyon's White Daffodils (4)
- Jeanette Winterson (7)
- Jerry goes to Jesus (2)
- Jesus Out to Sea (1)
- JM Coetzee - Five Books for Critics (1)
- JM Coetzee in York (9)
- John Clare and a Nightingale
- Johnny-One-Note (1)
- Joseph O'Neill on Beckett's Letters (4)
- Journalists face imprisonment for article on jokes (2)
- June - a poem - a massacre - a torch (2)
- Kenya (3)
- King Lear with Ian McKellen (12)
- Knights and Detectives (1)
- Knut Hamsun's Pan Revisited (1)
- La Vie En Rose (La Môme) - a review (1)
- Lady Godiva - No thank you
- Last Evenings on Earth by Roberto Bolano
- Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier (9)
- Learning to Write at Hay (8)
- Learning to Write I (10)
- Learning to Write II (10)
- Learning to Write IV (10)
- Learning to Write VI (2)
- Learning to Write VIII (4)
- Learning to Write X (1)
- Learning to Write XVIII (3)
- Learning to Write XXI
- Learning to Write XXV (13)
- Learning to Write XXVI
- Let's Clean Up Fashion (6)
- Letter To Sister Benedicta by Rose Tremain (3)
- Life and Times of Michael K (5)
- Lipstick (13)
- Literary Magic (5)
- Literary Pundit
- Literary TV (1)
- Literature is a Contact Sport (2)
- Looking to be understood? (5)
- Louise Bryant (1)
- Love, etc by Julian Barnes (2)
- Making Sense - A review of Jim Murdoch's Short Story Collection
- Manuel Vázquez Montalbán sometime minimalist cook (3)
- Margaret Atwood - The Penelopiad
- Margaret Atwood on The Blind Assassin (5)
- Marilyn Munroe and the Actors Studio (2)
- Martin Amis and the War on Clichés (3)
- Masks (8)
- McJob (6)
- Mean Streets
- Meet the World
- Melt the Guns (3)
- Metonymy
- Mid-life crisis - half way through a novel
- Milligan and Murphy - a review (6)
- Miss Havisham of Hay (2)
- Mobile Phone Myths (13)
- Mobile Phone Novels (2)
- Modernism I
- Modernism II
- Modernism III
- Modernism IV (1)
- Modernism IX
- Modernism V (5)
- Modernism VI (3)
- Modernism VII
- Modernism VIII (4)
- Modernism X (5)
- Modernism XI (8)
- Modernism XII
- Modernism XIII (3)
- Modigliani and Chekhov (4)
- Montvideo, a poem by Eduardo Galeano (3)
- More About the Song by Rachel Fox (4)
- More Loose Ends Than A Grass Skirt (2)
- Most Searched for Books (2)
- Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore (3)
- Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neil's Hotel by William Trevor
- Mrs McCullers, I love you. (1)
- Murakami On Translating Gatsby (4)
- My Day (3)
- My Life As A Fake by Peter Carey
- My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (1)
- My Revolutions by Hari Kunzru (1)
- Myanmar (Burma) Today (3)
- MyLot Stealing Blog Content (17)
- Naipaul as Hatchet Man
- National Library of the Year awarded to Prison Library
- Netherland by Joseph O'Neill (10)
- New Review for Winged with Death (4)
- New Shoes (7)
- No fool like an old fool. (1)
- No More Heroes (5)
- Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka (1)
- Not Eating with the Bushes (5)
- Not For Long
- Not Just Bibles (1)
- Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller (4)
- npower, julie and me (9)
- Obama Adds Faith to Hope and Change (14)
- Octavio Paz - Separation
- Odds of Dying in a Terrorist Attack (36)
- On being a writer . . . (3)
- On not winning the Nobel Prize
- On the English Language (10)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude (4)
- Open Secrets by Alice Munro (1)
- Out With The Old (6)
- Out-takes IX (1)
- Out-takes XXVII (2)
- Pablo Neruda (6)
- Pantheism (4)
- Paris; a Poem by Hope Mirrlees (4)
- Patti Smith - Horses (6)
- Paul Wolfowitz and Accountability (9)
- Pavarotti
- Peer Gynt
- People will stop writing? (5)
- Phil Beer & Miranda Sykes
- Philip Roth Talks To Hermione Lee
- Pink - Dear Mr President (8)
- Plain English
- Plan B (5)
- Please Stop Writing (5)
- Poet in New York (2)
- Police action (5)
- Politics and the English Language (3)
- Politics, Real Life & the Crime Novel (2)
- Postcards of the Hanging (4)
- Preaching in the Desert (2)
- Presque vu I
- Presque vu II (12)
- Presque vu III
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